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Binocular snobbery

10,000 Birds

However, instead of rushing out to buy a brand new pair of bins, it was recommended that she bought herself a pair of secondhand Zeiss Dialyt 10×40, then the binocular of choice of most serious birders. I was one of a small group of journalists, each of whom was presented with the latest Dialyt 10×40 inscribed with our initials.

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Birding Longcanggou, Sichuan again (but maybe for the last time)

10,000 Birds

Today, the national forest park is open to tourists – which in China means large groups of people in similarly large buses. The Eurasian Wren isn’t actually a particularly specific bird to Longcanggou – I have seen it in my parents’ garden in Germany as well. But haven’t we all done these things?

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